West Alps Club

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The West-Alpen-Club WAC , founded in 1937, was an association of mountain climbers in Switzerland with high sporting and ethical standards.

history

The intellectual father of the association was the writer and mountaineer Jürg Weiss from Basel . He wrote: «The WAC is a spontaneously created, loosely bound, statute and tax-carefree community of mountaineers within the framework of the Swiss Alpine Club , which has set itself the task of clarifying the mental part of mountaineering as completely as possible and the mountaineer -To give handicraft an artistically pure form. " Prominent members were u. a. Emile R. Blanchet , Otto Gerecht , Oskar Hug , René Ditterit , Werner Weckert , Günter Dyhrenfurth , Willy Uttendoppler , Marcel Kurz , Gunther Langes .

Above all, the WAC wanted to promote expedition mountaineering. He also turned against the prevailing nationalistic zeitgeist in Alpine circles. Weiss writes: "We Swiss mountaineers love the fight, the fight for the will of the fight, the fight for values ​​beyond blood and soil."

However, the Second World War and the early death in the mountains of Jürg Weiss soon made the association disappear again.

literature

• West-Alpen-Club (Ed.): Bergkameraden. WAC members tell . Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1939.